Frank Lautenberg: “Yes. Bring it up to New Jersey, please, Mr. Babbitt.”

Although we have had a complete trade ban on Iran since 1995, a significant loophole existed that allowed the foreign subsidiaries of American companies to do business with Iran.

We need to look beyond legal distinctions or classes of harms to look at the erosion of trust in the ecosystem.

I am deeply troubled with this budget. The Coast Guard does not have adequate funding to do everything we expect them to do.

Republicans in the Congress continue to call for even deeper budget cuts--despite clear evidence that the austerity agenda they have championed has slowed the pace of job growth and needlessly increased the suffering of children, seniors…